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Kenney to Edmonton: Drop dead!

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When the New York Daily News published its famous FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD headline on Oct. 30, 1975, all president Gerald Ford had done was deny a federal bailout to Gotham, which was nearly

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Can Canada’s Conservatives resist temptation to try to sabotage the accord with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs?

5 mins

It will be interesting to see how the Conservative Opposition in Ottawa and Alberta’s Conservative government react to yesterday’s announcement the federal and British Columbia governments have reached an accord with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Mar 1, 2020

Alberta’s self-selecting separation survey — unscientific, biased, tendentious, and a poor use of tax dollars

9 mins

Is the Kenney Government trying to persuade Albertans, one step at a time, that separation from Canada would be a good idea? How else do we explain the gratuitous inclusion of a question giving respondents

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David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Feb 29, 2020

Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson’s Red Chesterfield tops independent bookstores Alberta bestseller list

2 mins

Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 28, 2020

Budget Day: Creatures of the night return to the hallways of Alberta’s Legislature as boisterous protesters chant outside

9 mins

The thing about Budget Day at the Legislature that news media seldom gets across is that the real news usually isn’t the budget. The budget’s broad strokes are all known long before the details roll

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 27, 2020

Unconstitutional anyone? If Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell is doing her job, she’ll refuse to sign Bill 1 into law

9 mins

Bill 1 is a breathtakingly terrible piece of legislation. The bill, given first reading in the Alberta Legislature on Tuesday, is called the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act. Just for starters, in case you missed it,

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 26, 2020

Progress Alberta wins injunction against Kenney Government, which tried to ban progressive news site from budget lockup

6 mins

Progress Alberta has been granted an emergency injunction by a judge of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ordering the Alberta Government to permit the news site’s representative to attend the provincial pre-budget lockup in

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 26, 2020

Between Our Sovereign Lady the Queen and the Accused at Bar: Lieutenant Governor Dave reads the Speech from the Throne

11 mins

Mr. Speaker, honourable members of the Legislative Assembly, fellow Albertans … [Turns page.] I speak to you as Alberta’s vice-regal — which has nothing to do with vice, by the way, not that kind, anyway

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David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Feb 25, 2020

What really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands mine? It’s the market, stupid!

10 mins

So what really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands mine? Hint: It wasn’t anything Justin Trudeau did or didn’t do. That’s pure United Conservative Party gas lighting, a game a career politician like Alberta Premier

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Mar 3, 2020

Kenney to Edmonton: Drop dead!

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Mar 2, 2020

Can Canada’s Conservatives resist temptation to try to sabotage the accord with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs?

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Mar 1, 2020

Alberta’s self-selecting separation survey — unscientific, biased, tendentious, and a poor use of tax dollars

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Feb 29, 2020

Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson’s Red Chesterfield tops independent bookstores Alberta bestseller list

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 28, 2020

Budget Day: Creatures of the night return to the hallways of Alberta’s Legislature as boisterous protesters chant outside

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 26, 2020

Progress Alberta wins injunction against Kenney Government, which tried to ban progressive news site from budget lockup

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Feb 26, 2020

Between Our Sovereign Lady the Queen and the Accused at Bar: Lieutenant Governor Dave reads the Speech from the Throne

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Feb 25, 2020

What really happened to the Teck Frontier oilsands mine? It’s the market, stupid!

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